[Reduce-algebra-developers] A new Reduce primer

[Arthur N. <ac...@ca...>]

In trunl/doc/primers/insidereduce.pdf you will find a new document by 
Raffaele Vitolo and myself that can stand alongside the existing Herbert 
Melenk primer.pdf as a source of information for people wishing to build 
their own Reduce packages or even just for people who wiah to understand a 
little more about the internals of the system. For instance those who feel 
that it is important to be able to understand all the source code and all 
the algorithms used by software you rely on (see for instance 
www.ams.org/notices/201410/rnoti-p1249.pdf) may or may not find Reduce 
able to solve their particular problem and may or may not uncover bugs in 
it - but they can inspect all the code and if necessary correct or extend 
it. The existing and new primer might help them in their navigation!

These two documents (plus a copy of the Standard Lisp Report) have bene 
put in a new "primers" directory in the hope that others will contribute 
further documents explaining either the use of Reduce or aspects of its 
internal structure. The authors of Inside Reduce would be very happy to 
consider merging in chapters to that contributed by others ifthat felt 
more confortable than having a free standing separate document. I might 
also hope that this message will inspire some people to open up a 
discussion about what extra explanation would be useful. There can then be 
a secondary discussion of what is feasible and who will do the work!

Arthur